This weekend a Foreign Affairs Committee published a report on the recent UK-Iranian standoff over the naval soldiers held by the latter. It was deeply critical of the government’s handling of the situation. But while a BBC story focuses on the sale of personal stories to the media, we have to look at a newspaper report in Australia to get the bigger story: British map in Iran crisis ‘inaccurate’. Bizarre that the BBC ommitted to mention that. Afraid to embarass the government?

Maybe they didn’t know! And were too embarrassed to admit that oversight, given how everyone sees them as bastions of knowledge etc.

how did the australians find out? and what about other news providers in the UK? Why are we focusing only on the bBc’s failure to provide this information – what about everyone else? it wasn’t just the bbc that focused on the navy folk selling their stories – everyone was!

seems to me this is one situation where most of the UK media were behaving in much the same way. B

Actually folks, that’s not an Australian story but a British story that’s been picked up, with no attribution. Hell, I thought the author’s name was familiar!
But you’re right to point it out: it is bizarre that it wasn’t reported more.
Maybe we should blame the floods

Actually, they have reported that the FAC criticised the UK handling of the incident (read it in the papers yesterday I did, guv’nor!) but it looks like they ‘forgot’ to mention the important part about y’know…the map being wrong.

Obviously they don’t want the MOD/government to look more like prats then they already do about their recent Middle Eastern foray in Iraq…